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South Basehor, Kansas

35 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1890 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Fairmount Township. It lies in ZIP code area 66007. The Survey maps it on the Basehor quadrangle.

South Basehor within Leavenworth County

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 35 printed sheets

Matched by testing this settlement's coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet in the United States Geological Survey's historical collection. Each opens the scanned sheet at the Survey.

Fires near this place

99 since 2007

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 99 fires within 5 miles of South Basehor between 2007 and 2020, burning about 1,585 acres in total. None started naturally. 16 were recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause Fires
Missing data/not specified/undetermined52
Arson/incendiarism16
Smoking12
Debris and open burning10
Equipment and vehicle use4
Fireworks2
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Misuse of fire by a minor1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
17 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreLeavenworth County175
16 September 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKansas Forest Service23147
22 August 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKansas Forest Service5018340
14 August 2017Debris and open burningunder an acreLeavenworth County521
14 August 2015Smokingunder an acreKansas Forest Service209
12 August 2018Power generation/transmission/distribution1.0 acresKansas Forest Service191
11 August 2018Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreKansas Forest Service545
6 July 2015Arson/incendiarismunder an acreKansas Forest Service359

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Leavenworth County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of South Basehor: 2 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Tobin Mine & MillStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Underground Mine & MillStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Leavenworth County

Nearest settlements

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Basehor0.9 miles35
Stone1.1 miles35
East Fairmount4.1 miles35
Hoge4.2 miles35
Fairmount4.3 miles35
Mahon6.3 miles36
Little Kaw6.4 miles36
Ettenson7.8 miles37

Elsewhere

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

Wikidata item Q122562423The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 478555. The sheet list is computed by point-in-boundary test against the United States Geological Survey's historical topographic inventory. Both are works of the United States government and carry no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.